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Ballots and bullets : the bloody county seat wars of Kansas
- Title
- Ballots and bullets : the bloody county seat wars of Kansas / Robert K. DeArment ; foreword by Richard Maxwell Brown.
- Author
- DeArment, Robert K., 1925-2021.
- Publication
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- xiii, 266 pages : illustrations, map, portraits; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Focusing on the tumultuous years 1885-1892, Robert DeArment's compelling narrative is the first to reveal the complete story of the county seat wars that raged in Kansas - controversial episodes that made national news in the late 1900s but axe largely unknown today."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-255) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Some nonlethal county seat battles -- 2. Grant County : Ulysses vs. Appomattox -- 3. Gray County : Ingalls vs. Cimarron -- 4. Gray County : the battle of Cimarron -- 5. Gray County : aftermath of war -- 6. Wichita County : Leoti vs. Coronado -- 7. Wichita County : more blood flows -- 8. Stevens County : Hugoton vs. Woodsdale -- 9. Stevens County : Sam Robinson defects -- 10. Stevens County : the battle heats up -- 11. Stevens County : The Hay Meadow massacre -- 12. Stevens County : murder trial -- 13. Seward County : Fargo Springs vs. Springfield -- 14. Seward County : battle of big canyon.
- ISBN
- 0806137843 (hc : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006040479
- 9780806137841
- OCLC
- OCM64487156
- SCSB-5285283
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries